The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) and Asthma + Lung UK call for urgent action to address the growing number of online pharmacies selling salbutamol inhalers without ap
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has put out a reminder for healthcare professionals and patients with asthma that overuse of blue inhalers (short-acting beta 2 agonists or SABAs), without use of a preventer inhaler, may lead to worsening symptoms or serious asthma attacks.These reminders follow updates to product information and the NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance for SABAs.The advice for healthcare professionals is:
The start of a new year is an ideal time to support people to consider small ways to begin working towards a healthy lifestyle.
New BTS/NICE/SIGN Guideline on Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management 2024Today (27th November
Events and webinars
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The UK's leading respiratory conference for clinicians working primary, community and integrated care comes to Telford in September.
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In our monthly webinar series, PCRS In Conversation, our Executive Chair, Dr Katherine Hickman, is joined by guest speaker/s to share their experience and insights and discuss topical issues that matter to you.
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This year's Respiratory Leadership Programme commences with a workshop in June focusing on unlocking the skills to turn ideas into action to drive real change. A follow up workshop in November will support you to embed your learning.
🎧 The PCRS Podcast
Listen to the advice of our clinical experts in our exclusive series of podcasts on topics such as diagnosis of asthma, tackling SABA over-reliance and the use of rescue packs.
The Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU)
PCRU is packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news, summaries of respiratory-related policy news and also featuring summaries of npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine and other respiratory related journal articles, this jam-packed update has everything for clinicians working with patients with respiratory illnesses in a primary or community care setting.
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